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‘Travisville’ Explores Race, Urban Renewal and Generational Divide

By martha wade steketee on October 15, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

[article as originally published in Theater Pizzazz, October 15, 2018.] What happens when private business interests align with public interests, and public servants determine to destroy existing communities for commercial gain? There are […]

She’s Bernhardt, She’s Hamlet, and She Wears the Pants

By martha wade steketee on September 26, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

[Full article published in The Clyde Fitch Report, September 26, 2018.] A search for an absent father and finding solace on the stage are both captured beautifully in Teresa Rebeck’s new play Bernhardt/Hamlet. The problem […]

Political Machines, Private Lives: Facing the Truth of ‘The True’

By martha wade steketee on September 23, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

[Full article published in The Clyde Fitch Report, September 21, 2018.] The spine of Sharr White’s new play The True, produced Off-Broadway by The New Group, is the whir of a sewing machine. It’s the tool of […]

Harvard and Yale Make Cantata Out of Regatta for the Fourth Time

By martha wade steketee on September 19, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

[article as originally published in Theater Pizzazz, September 19, 2018.] The show starts on the stairs at 54 Below. Twice in the past few weeks, these aural pre-shows have been somber celebrations of […]

Pointed Political Parallels in an Off-Broadway ‘Henry VI’

By martha wade steketee on August 24, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

[Full article published in The Clyde Fitch Report, August 23, 2018.] In Stephen Brown-Fried’s elegant new two-part adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry VItrilogy for Off-Broadway’s National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO), we don’t have to reach very far […]

The Maria Irene Fornes Play Marathon We Need Right Now

By martha wade steketee on August 21, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

[Full article published in The Clyde Fitch Report, August 21, 2018.] On Mon., Aug. 27, a 12-hour marathon of staged readings at Public Theater will celebrate the life and work of Cuban-born playwright Maria Irene […]

Garcia Channels Bennett: “It’s All About the Material”

By martha wade steketee on August 19, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

[article as originally published in Theater Pizzazz, August 18, 2018.] The first show empties out, and a rapt audience of cabaret enthusiasts files into 54 Below for a late-night show featuring Eric Yves […]

‘Pretty Woman: The Musical’ Is So Unpretty

By martha wade steketee on August 17, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

[Full article published in The Clyde Fitch Report, August 17, 2018.] There’s a moment early in the first act of Pretty Woman: The Musical — adapted by the late Garry Marshall and J.F. Lawton from Lawton’s […]

‘Be More Chill’ is Infectious Joy On Stage And Off

By martha wade steketee on August 10, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

[Published in Theater Pizzazz, August 10, 2018.] You will hear, see, and feel the future of musical theater in the Joe Iconis and Joe Tracz creation Be More Chill, now at The Pershing Square […]

Marcus Gardley Constructs ‘The House That Will Not Stand’

By martha wade steketee on July 31, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

[Full article published in The Clyde Fitch Report, July 31, 2018.] In Marcus Gardley’s The House That Will Not Stand at New York Theatre Workshop, eight characters — seven women of color and one dead […]

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